Last modified: 2013-05-29 18:52:50 UTC
On a fresh instance, ganglia-monitor refresh to start: puppet gives: err: /Stage[main]/Ganglia/Service[gmond]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[gmond]: Execution of '/etc/init.d/ganglia-monitor start' returned 1: at /etc/puppet/manifests/ganglia.pp:238 Manual start gives: root@deployment-cache-upload-test6:/var/log# /etc/init.d/ganglia-monitor start Starting Ganglia Monitor Daemon: no such option 'override_hostname' Parse error for '/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf' root@deployment-cache-upload-test6 ganglia-monitor version is 3.1.7-2ubuntu1.1 : # apt-cache policy ganglia-monitor ganglia-monitor: Installed: 3.1.7-2ubuntu1.1 Candidate: 3.5.0-wm1 Version table: 3.5.0-wm1 0 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/ precise-wikimedia/main amd64 Packages 3.3.5-2~wmf2 0 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/ precise-wikimedia/universe amd64 Packages *** 3.1.7-2ubuntu1.1 0 500 http://pmtpa.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.1.7-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://pmtpa.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
I think this is resolved thanks to a new VM image. Hashar, do you agree?
I think that was related to the fresh instances having an old ganglia version (3.1.7 from ubuntu) that did not support the override_hostname parameter (introduced in ganglia 3.2.0). The new instances still have 3.1.7-2ubuntu2 though. Maybe they are prepopulated with the latest ganglia version. I tried creating a new instance ( bug47244.pmtpa.wmflabs ) but that does not let me log in yet :-D I guess it needs some puppet run which most probably update ganglia. We might want to just close this bug.
$ apt-cache policy ganglia-monitor ganglia-monitor: Installed: 3.5.0-wm1 Candidate: 3.5.0-wm1 Version table: *** 3.5.0-wm1 0 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/ precise-wikimedia/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.3.5-2~wmf2 0 1001 http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/ precise-wikimedia/universe amd64 Packages 3.1.7-2ubuntu1.1 0 500 http://pmtpa.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/universe amd64 Packages 3.1.7-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://pmtpa.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages Weird thing there are two gmond process: 6257 /usr/sbin/gmond --pid-file /var/run/gmond.pid 8245 /usr/sbin/gmond # netstat -lnp|grep gmond tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8649 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 6257/gmond udp 0 0 239.2.11.71:8649 0.0.0.0:* 6257/gmond Stopping the service, there is still 6257 /usr/sbin/gmond --pid-file /var/run/gmond.pid I have killed both process and restarted. Anyway, the restart process does not cause any troubles.
The original is fixed whenever puppet has ran which upgrade the default version.
